The Brutal Bigotry of Reasonable Expectations

Sometimes in civic discourse, pseudo-intellects of a certain right-wing political persuasion will discuss "the soft bigotry of low expectations" to concern troll against... well pretty much any minority-based progressive policy initiative save, possibly, adequately funding things like schools, which is simply ludicrous in a free market society.

It raises the question of whether there exists any bigotry in having high expectations.  Well, in the context of law schools, the answer is obvious:  YES.  MUCH MUCH BIGOTRY.

Case in point:  recently, the ABA accreditation folks adopted a measure requiring 75% bar passage within two years.  It's a stupendously dim proposal using an arbitrary number; assume 90% of Cooley's graduates land A-level JD-Advantage jobs?  And of course it's racist.  The ABA House of Delegates advised rejection of the deal with its past president noting that such a change would "decimate the diversity in the legal profession."

Requiring would-be lawyers to pass the bar exam seems an intolerable act.  When it unnecessarily punishes law schools for having the audacity of giving minority 140 LSATs a chance to defend traffic tickets, it's bigoted as fuck.

The LSTC vows to fight any such measures.  This accreditation rule essentially creates a segregated car on the Million Dollar Express, forcing us to uncouple it if the occupants simply aren't fit to practice law.  I'm fairly certain Brown v. Board is on point here.

At least some people still get it.  Shreveport, Louisiana, is one step closer to solving its understudied lawyer shortage.

"If you look at points south between Baton Rouge and Shreveport and west between Dallas and Shreveport and north between Little Rock and Shreveport and east between Jackson and Shreveport we have one of the largest geographic regions in the country without a law school," Glover said.

God damn that's good stuff.